Improvement in tonic preparations



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

WILLIAM TURNER, OF MOUNT CARMEL, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN TONIC PREPARATIONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 182,294, dated September 19, 1876; application filed May a, 1876. t 7

spirilus frume nti, (whisky,) one gallon. Let

it stand fourteen days, with occasional agitation, then strain, filter, and to every gallon of the mixture add sirup Tolu, five ounces; iodide potash,'twenty grains; cochineal, four grains; tartrate iron and potash, one dram;

honey, two drums; aqua pura, half gallon. Dose: A wine-glassful three or four times a day. V

The tonic and stimulating properties combined in this agreeable form will greatly assist in exciting a weak or dyspeptic stomach to a healthy function, thereby aiding digestion, the first important step to the process of absorption and assimilation of the nourishing elements of the food, while the iron and iodide A potassium, in their proportions, are gently and not violently stimulaling to the alimentary glands in general in the human body.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A tonic compound composed of cardamomseed, cinnamon-bark, caraWa-y-seed, coriander-seed,juniper-berries, cinchona bark, gumbeuzoin, gum myrrh, blood root, Sassafrasbark, wildcherry bark, whisky, sirup Tolu, iodide potash, cochineal, tartrate iron and potash, honey, and water, in about'the proportions herein set orth.

WILLIAM TURNER, M. D. Witnesses:

ROBERT BELL,

E. B. GREEN. 

